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XplanaZine: Distributed Communities of Practice in E-Learning

This is a nice overview piece on using distributed communities of practice to boost your design/production teams, although there are a few oddities. It doesn’t seem written quite right to perfectly target either corporate or higher ed applications (though it … Continue reading

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Weblogs and Communities of Practice

Here’s a thoughtful post comparing communities of practice to networks of weblogs, apparently distilled from a discussion group at the Blogwalk conference. The short summary: Weblogs are more respectful of their authors and of their audience Weblogs are better connecting … Continue reading

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